the extreme complexity and chance required to manipulate the process makes this sound quite resilient to me. i think the risk is low, but i wonder about the prevalence of gerrymandering at Level Two.

two questions:

• do additional endorsements past the minimum nomination requirement count for anything? if they don’t, i imagine that incentivises people to save their endorsements for ‘underendorsed’ candidates, which keeps the pool large.
• how are the kinless treated? how does chosen family work in your setting? i have a deep, negative emotional reaction to family-based governance, as someone who has been systematically denied family. i struggle to form any coherent words on the subject, but i imagine i would be ‘kinless’ in any life or world, so this piqued my interest.

i love these posts and i look forward to reading more!

i live in a country of mostly lactose intolerant white people, and the ingredients list on a ‘vegan’ item will check out except every other item will list ‘lactose’ by itself. and every time i wonder where the fuck the lactose is coming from, or why it seems to be in everything when these people can’t digest it.

i believe they’re @ing you because they’re posting from Mastadon.

AuDHD, for context.

my experience is also primarily with tired parents with mortages… who blame minorities for their unhappiness (so they vote right-wing) and get all of their social and emotional fulfilment from work (so they willingly buy into the C-suite cult).

they are also usually so tech illiterate that they have the vibe of someone who never learned a trade and fell for the ‘learn to code’ advice at some point in their life.

i think it would be more symbolic to extend the rainbow peace flag over it.

growing up, the most common ‘counterargument’ (read: dismission) to ‘global warming’ i heard was ‘great, i love summer!’

i had to become a singer before i had the lung capacity to sigh hard enough.

she’s alluding to the fact that these characters — the ‘soyjack’ and ‘gigachad’ — are historically, and still actively are, alt-right charicatures. together with their friends, ‘tradwife’ and ‘doomer (girl)’: they represent misogynistic, racist, antisemitic, and white supremacist tropes.

i’m going to ignore your posting history and assume for a moment you aren’t a contrarian debate pervert. what exactly is the point you are trying to get across?

you agree we should move past animal cruelty, but because we have animal cruelty today, we still need to have animal cruelty today?

you agree that animal testing is fundamentally wrong, but because someone was unconsensually subjected to unethical experimentation, we need to keep the animal testing?

why do you feel the need to agree with people but then say ‘but that’s not how it works today’?

i see these types of comments in every comment section about societal problems. ‘i agree X needs to change to Y, but we don’t have Y today, sweaty. 💅’ like- what? are you all really just trolls, or do you really think you’re being insightful and helpful? because this isn’t what a discussion looks like. it’s dis-miss-ion.

think disallowing votes (down or both) from non-subscribers would defeat the point of the all feed, which to me is to display the most active/interesting posts on the Fediverse right now. You can’t have that if it is only community subscribers that vote.

isn’t this what ‘scaled’ sorting is / could be for?